There are a few Pixelfed repost accounts who won’t like this

Couldn’t happen to a nicer company

Remortgage your house now.

Also, scientific papers would be as likely to be published in German or French as in English, and when computers appear, technical terms and keywords would probably not be in American English. This universe’s equivalent of FORTRAN or the UNIX command line may be based on German grammar.

“May your chickens grow lips!” — a curse uttered by a medieval peasant in an old video game

They say things like this about every generation. Boomer kids had their brains rotted by TV and rock’n’roll. GenX couldn’t do long division because of calculators. Millennials lost the ability to communicate in complete sentences because of mobile phone texting. In the bronze age, writing totally destroyed the youth’s ability to memorise epic poetry. And so on.

They don’t have raccoons or baby alligators in Thailand, it seems

The earth is flat; it’s just space that’s curved.

Traditionally Islam prohibited the depiction of any living forms (Allah’s copyright or something like that), which is why traditional Islamic art and architecture lean so heavily into geometric patterns.

That’s their lesser-known offshoot, Girl Special Forces

They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.

Hey, if it worked for the House of Habsburg, it can work for your oil dynasty as well.

I prefer “don’t renew your library books”

I’ve only seen one episode, the San Junipero one. I can’t wait to watch the rest. I do love some cozy, optimistic sci-fi.

The related program to control the venomous spider population was a failure because they couldn’t find a scientist who could imagine being here to fuck spiders

It was patchy, especially in the middle of season 2, and somewhat compromised. The studio forced Lynch to name a killer (he wanted to keep the mystery open, as he would have in a film), and sometime after that it sagged into soap-opera tropes. On its own merits, it is a mixed bag, and if judged as “high-quality TV drama”, it’s middling.

Though its main impact was the shows that followed. Before it, TV drama was mediocre soaps and sitcoms with formulaic plots, of the sort that didn’t aspire to be more than chewing gum for the eyes. Twin Peaks and its success showed that TV could aspire to be more than that. If it hadn’t had its cultural impact, there’d have been no X Files, Sopranos, West Wing, Breaking Bad or similar series, just more variations on General Hospital, Hill Street Blues, The Young And The Restless and so on.

if people will wear Crocs in public, I wouldn’t rule it out

Surely the army would conscript them to a cybersecurity red team?

Looks like AI slop to me.

I imagine there would have been hours of footage in which the other actors succeeded in making him respond (i.e., what they call “corpsing” in theatre) and they have to retake the scene.